Cars That Think

MARCH 24, 2022

So, I set about building an open-source ice tracker from DIY components that not only proved to be much, much cheaper but also much more capable than the commercial options. James Provost We tested the basic design by deploying a prototype onto the ice in February 2021.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Greta Bekerytė started out cleaning offices and ended up designing electronics for EV charging stations. He was a DIY enthusiast willing to try his hand at just about anything, from electronics to plumbing. The job involved designing signaling systems on subsea oil wells. It wasn’t easy. she says. “So It weighs 1.3 It weighs 1.3

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Clean Cleaning Design Lithuania 88

Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2021

It uses an "outrunner" motor designed for electric skateboards. motor designed for electric skateboards for $88 and fashioned a mount for it out of a few pieces of scrap aluminum. Being an open-source design no doubt keeps the price of this hardware down: The controller I bought set me back a mere $85. So I bought an outrunner.

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Electrek

JULY 28, 2023

Bike campers were once novelties, often thrown together as simple DIY affairs , but recent models are bringing a new level of quality and professionalism to these quirky trailers. The Finnish-designed Hupi trailer is the latest offering to showcase a surprisingly high-end design.

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Solar DIY Power Powered 98

Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2021

It uses an "outrunner" motor designed for electric skateboards. motor designed for electric skateboards for $88 and fashioned a mount for it out of a few pieces of scrap aluminum. Being an open-source design no doubt keeps the price of this hardware down: The controller I bought set me back a mere $85. So I bought an outrunner.

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DIY Conversion Cheap Motor 98

Teslarati

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

A few Tesla Cybertruck owners have turned to DIY vinyl wrap kits to protect the all-electric pickup truck’s stainless steel exterior. After the Cybertruck’s unveiling, a few Tesla fans shared wrap design ideas for the electric pickup truck.

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Cars That Think

JULY 30, 2021

It's not hard to turn them on and off with a connected socket adapter of some sort, but as you start to go back more than a few years, things become increasingly designed for direct human interaction rather than for the Internet, with buttons and switches and dials and whatnot. Or, that was the idea, anyway.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 13, 2024

I do know that the kit includes a 1,000W motor designed to run on 48V, though they also describe it as 2,000W in some areas. I think it’s fair to say that there are some concerns with this kit, most of which come from the design. I feel like any self-respecting DIY electric snowmobile should cost significantly more than this.

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DIY Electric Car

JUNE 4, 2011

It's the same one as the link on the top right of the page, but I admit, our site design is a little weak so I'm not terribly surprised that it gets overlooked. For those of you who don't know, we have an electric car conversion wiki which has tons of info for beginners and pros. Hey, it's all about the content, right?

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

meter-tall Nexø II rocket was powered by a bipropellant engine designed and constructed by the Copenhagen Suborbitals team. That successful mission in August 2018 was a huge step toward our goal of sending an amateur astronaut to the edge of space aboard one of our DIY rockets. Even more important, it came back down in one piece.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 28, 2023

ultraArm P340: A New Robot for Education In 2023, Elephant Robotics is also introducing the ultraArm P340, a high-performance robotic arm designed to meet educational needs. There are two kits in the DIY series: the Drawing Kit and Laser Engraving Kit.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Searching the interwebs, I found no shortage of leads about how to build a DIY seismometer. The problem is that the DIY seismometer designs I was seeing were large and ungainly contraptions. Most geophones are designed for measuring frequencies above 10 Hz. I recently decided that I needed to give this a try.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Compatibility with the Cybertruck’s battery for accessory add-ons and DIY builds. Its full-camp kitchen, bathroom, shower, and rack accessories were designed to utilize most of the Cybertruck’s space. In the explainer video below, Space Campers offered a look inside and more information on several features and functions.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Navy researcher Robert Bruninga and was originally designed to track tactical information in real time. MicroAPRS , which is an open-source and Arduino-compatible firmware package for DIY packet radio modems. NEO 6M-based GPS receiver that is popular with hobbyists for things such as DIY drones. I chose a $10.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Be the tiny DIY robot cat you’ve always wanted to be! Sanctuary AI ] Cargo drones are designed to carry payloads with predefined shape, size, and/or mass. Here we propose a new reconfigurable drone based on a modular design that adapts to different cargo shapes, sizes, and mass. Swiss-Mile ] Thanks, Marko! at the link below.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

November 2018 Hands On article, “DIY Pro Audio ” in IEEE Spectrum , and it convinced me it was possible, although I wanted to go beyond just a power amplifier to something more like my lamented Sansui. In commercial product development, an optimized microcontroller would be the way to go, but for my DIY project, a Pi was perfect.

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All Cars Electric

JULY 13, 2011

Designed to provide up to 3.8 Electrical supply firm Leviton Manufacturing announced yesterday that it was now accepting orders for its $1,049 EVB22-3PM Level 2 charging station. kilowatts to charge electric cars like the 2011 Nissan Leaf and 2011 Chevrolet Volt, the Leviton unit can be installed without any permanent modifications to a.

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DIY Electric Car

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Hello DIY'ers, The Exploratorium in the San Francisco is looking for someone who'd like to show off their DIY Electric Car for one night on October 7th as part of our monthly After Dark series. As it turns out, the Exploratorium was born out of the DIY spirit. I'm looking forward to meeting the members of the DIY Electric Car Forum.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

But to incorporate many different types of sensors, we need different material designs and tools. A little device that harvests energy from a runner’s evening jog clearly is not designed for a massive bison, which can weigh up to a tonne. In the future, DIY may not even be necessary. Batteries die before animals do.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Now, after countless versions of wiring things together, and even designing my own audio mixers, I finally have a DIY solution that works within a reasonable budget. The WM8960 has a quieter initial gain stage that’s designed for microphones. It was for the audio codec chip by Wolfson, the $18 WM8960.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 26, 2024

Well, not really cheated, but I just went with a retail solar generator system instead of DIYing that part myself from à la carte components. It’s more expensive since you’re paying for a pre-designed and engineered solution, but damn if it doesn’t make it easy! To be fair, I cheated a bit.

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Cars That Think

JULY 15, 2022

The robot is designed to carry its own magnet, which it alternately retracts and repels. While there are many design overlaps with the VoloCity, we created the VoloDrone to offer heavy-lift services to a slew of industries, and it will be deployed where classic transportation modes reach their limits. GRASP Lab ].

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 23, 2024

James Provost Using a microcontroller—rather than, say, discrete logic chips—simplified the design and allows for easy modification and expansion. It’s trivial to tweak the software to substitute your own font design for the numbers, for example, or adjust the brightness of the display.

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DIY Electric Car

JUNE 15, 2010

Next will be the design and implementation of the electronics? m heavily looking toward my counselors at DIY t help me here as I am quite mathematically and electronically challenged. Tomorrow I will raise the drive wheels and give her a good testing of the drive train. I do well with the heavy work, soldering, and wiring, but I don?

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2009

Building materials retailer Grange Builders Providers, of Baldoyle, Dublin, has purchased a Smith Newton truck for deliveries of building and DIY products. Designed for city and town center use, the Smith Newton is powered by an 80 kWh Li-ion battery pack and a 120 kW electric motor.

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Clean Fleet Report

DECEMBER 1, 2022

This is not an anti-ICE or anti-car story, it’s designed to make sure you are aware of some of the health issues that can arise from car use.]. Mechanics, hobbyists and people who repair cars as DIY projects can be exposed to asbestos–especially when they clean the brakes of older cars—but EPA has advice on how to avoid exposure.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 24, 2024

The new Sorento features multiple refreshed design elements, many drawn from the recently launched EV9. inch multifunction LCD digital display on S, Sport and Sport + trim grades designed to replace the outgoing model’s analogue instrumentation. HEV and PHEV options will join the petrol and diesel duo tested here later in the year.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 26, 2022

in homes that possess the proper inks and designs.” student at the University, now a post-doctoral researcher at MIT’s Computational Design and Fabrication Group. student at the University, now a post-doctoral researcher at MIT’s Computational Design and Fabrication Group. The result was a six-layer, 1.5-inch

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Electrek

MARCH 12, 2022

So instead, this week I think it’s time to let our creative side out to explore just what is possible when we remove the shackles of fully completed vehicular design, and instead embark on our own custom electric car creations using China’s very own electric car skateboard platform. appeared first on Electrek.

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 14, 2023

Although you can have an approximate gauge of the issue yourself, it does not necessarily mean you can take the DIY route. A multimeter is designed to measure a component’s electric current or voltage, making it a must-have in troubleshooting your car’s electric problems.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 6, 2022

In a 2016 interview with DIY Photography , he said cassettes were the only permanent form of “digital storage” available to him at the time. He designed it so each tape would store 30 images. So Sasson built a CCD into a camera with RAM to capture image data, which was then transferred to a cassette tape.

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Get Electric Vehicle

AUGUST 29, 2023

It might not match that of purpose-built EVs, which are designed for optimal efficiency. #2. Labour and Expertise Converting a car to electric propulsion isn’t a simple DIY project for most individuals. Range and Performance The range of a converted EV depends on the battery capacity and efficiency of the conversion.

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DIY Electric Car

MARCH 23, 2021

I'm currently in the design phase so I have yet to actual get my hands on the parts. Hey guys, I am an newbie when it comes to motor controllers. I was wondering if anyone had any luck connecting their motor controller to CAN through arduino. If anyone has any advice with CAN, please let me know.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2021

Maverick, which offers ingenious design and storage solutions while enabling customization inside and out, comes with a starting MSRP of $19,995. It features an in-house-designed and manufactured electric traction motor. The whole bed is a DIY fan’s paradise. The Maverick product proposition is like nothing else out there.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 24, 2024

The new Sorento features multiple refreshed design elements, many drawn from the recently launched EV9. inch multifunction LCD digital display on S, Sport and Sport + trim grades designed to replace the outgoing model’s analogue instrumentation. HEV and PHEV options will join the petrol and diesel duo tested here later in the year.

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Kia Petrol Diesel DIY 52

DIY Electric Car

MARCH 23, 2021

Being there was no good way to adapted to the motor shaft, I spent a good long time designing this coupler. About a year ago I scored a great deal on a gen2 leaf motor, which changed my ev plans. As a result i got a small batch of them made and still have a few left for any one interested. gen 2 leaf motor (EM57) shaft coupler.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 2, 2022

Therefore, when it received new information that there was a great shortage of combat application tourniquets (CATs) for the military, in just a few days they had developed a tourniquet design that could be 3D printed, and began to modify it for better performance.

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